December 19, 2005
Deck the House
slide the ball to the right, and click on each symbol.
http://www.powerpres.com/xmascard03.html
Interactive Christmas card
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003I
Simon says...
http://www.santasez.sig-ad.com
TEACH THE CHILDREN
http://www.promiseofgod.com/teach/
Federally funded facilities tell residents not to sing carols or decorate
Managers in charge of two federally subsidized housing facilities have told residents in one case they cannot sing Christmas carols, and in another they can't decorate their own entry doors with religious symbols, according to a religious-liberty law firm.
Attorneys at Liberty Counsel say they have sent two separate letters to housing authorities subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development demanding that they reverse their positions regarding Christmas.
In a statement, the law group says the Housing Resource Development Corporation has informed those senior citizens living in its Winter Park, Fla., subsidized housing facility that they may not sing Christmas carols, nor may they have outside religious groups or churches sing Christmas carols in the facility.
Representing one of the residents, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter asserting the housing authority is violating the Federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits religious discrimination. The housing authority was threatened with legal action if it did not lift the carols prohibition...http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47892
Australia: Christmas Ham Might Offend Muslims
18dec05 -A WA hospital has scrubbed baked ham from its Christmas menu, fearing Muslim patients could be offended.It has also overhauled its entire menu so that all meals are now halal – containing only meat and other food prepared according to Muslim customs.
But Port Hedland Regional Hospital staff and many non-Muslim patients are outraged, saying it is a case of political correctness gone mad.
Kitchen staff are so angry that they have organised a petition demanding ham be put back on the Christmas menu.
Other WA hospitals are also introducing halal dining, though the Health Department says Port Hedland is the only one to convert its entire menu to suit Muslims.
...The hospital's nursing director, Judy Davis, said though ham was not on the menu, Christian patients would not miss out on festive cheer.
"We'll still make Christmas special – we've got prawns and all sorts of other special treats," she said.
But one long-time Port Hedland hospital worker told The Sunday Times the menu change was "unAustralian".
"It's going to be a boring old Christmas lunch for the patients," he said. "After all, what's Christmas without a ham, or Sunday morning without bacon and eggs? http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C7034%2C17598854%5E2761%2C00.html
University Administrator Declares Christmas 'Forbidden' (as well as July 4th )
An administrator at California State University, Sacramento has banned decorations pertaining to Christmas and the 4th of July, among other holidays, from her office because they represent "religious discrimination" and "ethnic insensitivity."
"Time has come to recognize that religious discrimination, as well as ethnic insensitivity to certain holidays, is forbidden," Patricia Sonntag, director of the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities, stated in the directive she e-mailed to members of her staff on Dec. 9.
...The memo specifically names Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day, the 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day and Easter as the most offensive holidays, but Sonntag adds that they are "off the top of the list," implying that there may be others.
...the university associate vice president for public affairs, Frank Whitlatch, distanced the university from Sonntag's policy, saying in a prepared statement that it "was well-intentioned but strays from the established practice."
He stated that the university "has no guidelines prohibiting holiday decorations," aside from the responsibility of supervisors, "to ensure that employees do not spend an unreasonable amount of work time decorating."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200512\CUL20051216a.html
Jackie Mason to defend Christmas
Dec 15- Representing a Jewish organization that defends Christians, comedian Jackie Mason will ride down New York City's 5th Avenue today to highlight the "war on Christmas."
Mason is a founding member of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, or JAACD, the organization sponsoring the event. According to a statement from the group, the entertainer will ride in a 15-foot Ford Excursion with banners proclaiming, "Jews for 'It's OK To Say Merry Christmas.'"
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47904
Couple wins Nativity scene battle
Accompanied by a lawyer, a couple successfully acquired permission from a Pennsylvania town council to set up a Nativity scene on public property.
The Beaver Borough Council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to allow Deborah and Michael Sturm to erect their display this Saturday...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47911
Florida city makes room for Nativity
December 14, 2005 WELLINGTON — The village's holiday display is going to get a whole lot more crowded.
With residents holding signs reading "Is there no room in Wellington for the nativity?" and "Keep the Christ in Christmas," the village council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a crèche to a holiday display on public property, along with reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and maybe even Santa Claus.
But to avoid endorsing any religion and dissuade potential lawsuits, the council also voted to add nonreligious holiday symbols to the display, which for years has consisted of a Christmas tree and a menorah.http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbcsouth/content/local_news/epaper/2005/12/14/m1a_nativity_1214.html
Lawsuit challenges Christmas-music ban
A parent is challenging a New Jersey school district's ban on Christmas music with a lawsuit that has reached a federal appeals court.
Michael Stratechuk, who has two children enrolled in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, filed a brief yesterday in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, asserting the school district's ban on religious music conveys the impermissible, government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
As WorldNetDaily reported, last year the district expanded its no-Christmas music policy to include instrumental music. Instead of tunes about Jesus, and even Santa Claus, the 40-member Columbia High School brass ensemble was limited for the first time to seasonal selections such as "Winter Wonderland" and "Frosty the Snowman."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47925
70% of Americans: Jesus is Son of God
Rock solid majorities of Americans believe in God, angels, heaven and hell, and the survival of the soul after death, according to a new poll. Sizable minorities also think ghosts and UFO's exist, the Harris Interactive poll published Wednesday found.
Eighty-two percent of Americans have faith in God, 73 percent believe in miracles, and 70 percent think there is a heaven and that Jesus is the son of God, the poll found.
Sixty-eight percent believe in angels and 66 percent believe in Christ's resurrection, the poll found.
Seventy percent of Americans believe that the soul lives on after death, and nearly two in three said hell existed...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/051214225639.uuzs121w.html
Smoking foes try to stop parents from lighting up
December 16, 2005 Anti-smoking activists who are driving cigarettes from public places across the country are now targeting private homes -- especially those with children.
Their efforts so far have contributed to regulations in three states -- Maine, Oklahoma and Vermont -- forbidding foster parents from smoking around children. Parental smoking also has become a critical point in some child-custody cases, including ones in Virginia and Maryland.
...The smoking-at-home issue also sparked debate about whether such rulings will lead courts to become involved in such matters as parents' making poor TV programming choices for their children. ..
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20051215-112826-9119r.htm
America Supports You
a nationwide program launched by the Department of Defense, will recognize citizens' support for our military men and women and communicate that support to members of our Armed Forces at home and abroad.
www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil
Prices Drop by Largest Amount in 56 Years
Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in more than a half- century in November as gasoline prices fell by a record amount. The Labor Department reported Thursday that its closely watched Consumer Price Index dropped by 0.6 percent last month, the biggest monthly decline since a 0.9 percent fall in July 1949.
The decline was better than the 0.4 percent drop that analysts had been expecting. Outside of the volatile food and energy categories, prices were up 0.2 percent, a modest gain that should help relieve fears that this year's surge in energy costs could evolve into more widespread inflation problems.http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/15/D8EGN5I00.html
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664
First Civil-Union Couple Parting Ways
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) -- A lesbian couple who entered into the nation's first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior.
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/V/VERMONT_CIVIL_UNION?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Report Could Torpedo Hillary Clinton's Prez Plans
Two Washington pundits are warning that Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential plans may depend on whether congressional Democrats can continue to keep Independent Counsel David Barrett's final report on IRS abuses during the 1990s under wraps.
"Prominent Democrats in Congress have spent much of the last decade in a campaign to suppress Barrett's report," columnist Robert Novak reported yesterday. "Its disclosures could dig deeply into concealed Clinton administration scandals."
Notes Fox News Radio's Tony Snow: "By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47936
slide the ball to the right, and click on each symbol.
http://www.powerpres.com/xmascard03.html
Interactive Christmas card
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003I
Simon says...
http://www.santasez.sig-ad.com
TEACH THE CHILDREN
http://www.promiseofgod.com/teach/
Federally funded facilities tell residents not to sing carols or decorate
Managers in charge of two federally subsidized housing facilities have told residents in one case they cannot sing Christmas carols, and in another they can't decorate their own entry doors with religious symbols, according to a religious-liberty law firm.
Attorneys at Liberty Counsel say they have sent two separate letters to housing authorities subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development demanding that they reverse their positions regarding Christmas.
In a statement, the law group says the Housing Resource Development Corporation has informed those senior citizens living in its Winter Park, Fla., subsidized housing facility that they may not sing Christmas carols, nor may they have outside religious groups or churches sing Christmas carols in the facility.
Representing one of the residents, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter asserting the housing authority is violating the Federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits religious discrimination. The housing authority was threatened with legal action if it did not lift the carols prohibition...http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47892
Australia: Christmas Ham Might Offend Muslims
18dec05 -A WA hospital has scrubbed baked ham from its Christmas menu, fearing Muslim patients could be offended.It has also overhauled its entire menu so that all meals are now halal – containing only meat and other food prepared according to Muslim customs.
But Port Hedland Regional Hospital staff and many non-Muslim patients are outraged, saying it is a case of political correctness gone mad.
Kitchen staff are so angry that they have organised a petition demanding ham be put back on the Christmas menu.
Other WA hospitals are also introducing halal dining, though the Health Department says Port Hedland is the only one to convert its entire menu to suit Muslims.
...The hospital's nursing director, Judy Davis, said though ham was not on the menu, Christian patients would not miss out on festive cheer.
"We'll still make Christmas special – we've got prawns and all sorts of other special treats," she said.
But one long-time Port Hedland hospital worker told The Sunday Times the menu change was "unAustralian".
"It's going to be a boring old Christmas lunch for the patients," he said. "After all, what's Christmas without a ham, or Sunday morning without bacon and eggs? http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C7034%2C17598854%5E2761%2C00.html
University Administrator Declares Christmas 'Forbidden' (as well as July 4th )
An administrator at California State University, Sacramento has banned decorations pertaining to Christmas and the 4th of July, among other holidays, from her office because they represent "religious discrimination" and "ethnic insensitivity."
"Time has come to recognize that religious discrimination, as well as ethnic insensitivity to certain holidays, is forbidden," Patricia Sonntag, director of the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities, stated in the directive she e-mailed to members of her staff on Dec. 9.
...The memo specifically names Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day, the 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day and Easter as the most offensive holidays, but Sonntag adds that they are "off the top of the list," implying that there may be others.
...the university associate vice president for public affairs, Frank Whitlatch, distanced the university from Sonntag's policy, saying in a prepared statement that it "was well-intentioned but strays from the established practice."
He stated that the university "has no guidelines prohibiting holiday decorations," aside from the responsibility of supervisors, "to ensure that employees do not spend an unreasonable amount of work time decorating."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200512\CUL20051216a.html
Jackie Mason to defend Christmas
Dec 15- Representing a Jewish organization that defends Christians, comedian Jackie Mason will ride down New York City's 5th Avenue today to highlight the "war on Christmas."
Mason is a founding member of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, or JAACD, the organization sponsoring the event. According to a statement from the group, the entertainer will ride in a 15-foot Ford Excursion with banners proclaiming, "Jews for 'It's OK To Say Merry Christmas.'"
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47904
Couple wins Nativity scene battle
Accompanied by a lawyer, a couple successfully acquired permission from a Pennsylvania town council to set up a Nativity scene on public property.
The Beaver Borough Council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to allow Deborah and Michael Sturm to erect their display this Saturday...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47911
Florida city makes room for Nativity
December 14, 2005 WELLINGTON — The village's holiday display is going to get a whole lot more crowded.
With residents holding signs reading "Is there no room in Wellington for the nativity?" and "Keep the Christ in Christmas," the village council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a crèche to a holiday display on public property, along with reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and maybe even Santa Claus.
But to avoid endorsing any religion and dissuade potential lawsuits, the council also voted to add nonreligious holiday symbols to the display, which for years has consisted of a Christmas tree and a menorah.http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbcsouth/content/local_news/epaper/2005/12/14/m1a_nativity_1214.html
Lawsuit challenges Christmas-music ban
A parent is challenging a New Jersey school district's ban on Christmas music with a lawsuit that has reached a federal appeals court.
Michael Stratechuk, who has two children enrolled in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, filed a brief yesterday in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, asserting the school district's ban on religious music conveys the impermissible, government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
As WorldNetDaily reported, last year the district expanded its no-Christmas music policy to include instrumental music. Instead of tunes about Jesus, and even Santa Claus, the 40-member Columbia High School brass ensemble was limited for the first time to seasonal selections such as "Winter Wonderland" and "Frosty the Snowman."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47925
70% of Americans: Jesus is Son of God
Rock solid majorities of Americans believe in God, angels, heaven and hell, and the survival of the soul after death, according to a new poll. Sizable minorities also think ghosts and UFO's exist, the Harris Interactive poll published Wednesday found.
Eighty-two percent of Americans have faith in God, 73 percent believe in miracles, and 70 percent think there is a heaven and that Jesus is the son of God, the poll found.
Sixty-eight percent believe in angels and 66 percent believe in Christ's resurrection, the poll found.
Seventy percent of Americans believe that the soul lives on after death, and nearly two in three said hell existed...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/051214225639.uuzs121w.html
Smoking foes try to stop parents from lighting up
December 16, 2005 Anti-smoking activists who are driving cigarettes from public places across the country are now targeting private homes -- especially those with children.
Their efforts so far have contributed to regulations in three states -- Maine, Oklahoma and Vermont -- forbidding foster parents from smoking around children. Parental smoking also has become a critical point in some child-custody cases, including ones in Virginia and Maryland.
...The smoking-at-home issue also sparked debate about whether such rulings will lead courts to become involved in such matters as parents' making poor TV programming choices for their children. ..
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20051215-112826-9119r.htm
America Supports You
a nationwide program launched by the Department of Defense, will recognize citizens' support for our military men and women and communicate that support to members of our Armed Forces at home and abroad.
www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil
Prices Drop by Largest Amount in 56 Years
Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in more than a half- century in November as gasoline prices fell by a record amount. The Labor Department reported Thursday that its closely watched Consumer Price Index dropped by 0.6 percent last month, the biggest monthly decline since a 0.9 percent fall in July 1949.
The decline was better than the 0.4 percent drop that analysts had been expecting. Outside of the volatile food and energy categories, prices were up 0.2 percent, a modest gain that should help relieve fears that this year's surge in energy costs could evolve into more widespread inflation problems.http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/15/D8EGN5I00.html
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664
First Civil-Union Couple Parting Ways
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) -- A lesbian couple who entered into the nation's first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior.
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/V/VERMONT_CIVIL_UNION?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Report Could Torpedo Hillary Clinton's Prez Plans
Two Washington pundits are warning that Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential plans may depend on whether congressional Democrats can continue to keep Independent Counsel David Barrett's final report on IRS abuses during the 1990s under wraps.
"Prominent Democrats in Congress have spent much of the last decade in a campaign to suppress Barrett's report," columnist Robert Novak reported yesterday. "Its disclosures could dig deeply into concealed Clinton administration scandals."
Notes Fox News Radio's Tony Snow: "By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47936
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